About the Book

​Author: Jay Asher

Title: Thirteen Reason's Why

Pages: 336

Genre: Young Adult Mystery

Date Published: December 26, 2016

Publisher: Razorbill

Format: Audio

Source: Overdrive

Synopsis:
Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker--his classmate and crush--who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah's voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out why.
Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah's pain, and as he follows Hannah's recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever."

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​“You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.” ​

Review

​I heard this was being made into a show on netflix (I think), so I checked my library to see if it was available. That way I'd be able to watch it when it came out, because that's who I am as a person.

Okay, so this book deals with the heavy subject of suicide. As someone who has suffered from depression, it is a subject that is important to me. I don't think it should be glorified or made into some fancy thing, but it should be acknowledged and prevented by making mental health less of a taboo topic.

Hannah had been planning her suicide for a while and managed to record a message to a group of 13 people in her life that helped her feel insignificant. By doing this, the book helps show that the way people treat one another does have consequences. Even if you react by refusing to react. I think that was a pretty powerful message.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who has ever interacted in public. I will also be watching the show when it comes on whatever streaming site that it's coming on.